This is the last chance to submit your paper to the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference. when: October 9-10 where: Montreal! keynotes: Fred Finan and Vincent Pons. Deadline is tomorrow! See you in Montreal in the fall!

Nico Ajzenman@nicolasajz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 Join us for the 3rd Transatlantic Political Economy Conference on Oct 9-10 in Montreal! 🚨 I co-organize it with @clpennec.bsky.social and Cevat Giray Aksoy, it will be even better than the first editions! Send your papers before June 19: forms.gle/4LbupRmMPriH... Share with friends!

New WP 🥳 Can AI replace human counselors? Large RCT (n=41K) comparing an AI chatbot vs. trained human counselors to motivate high school seniors toward teaching careers. Summary: If anything, bots outperformed humans at a smaller cost and reduced human quality heterogeneity.

🚨 Join us for the 3rd Transatlantic Political Economy Conference on Oct 9-10 in Montreal! 🚨 I co-organize it with @clpennec.bsky.social and Cevat Giray Aksoy, it will be even better than the first editions! Send your papers before June 19: forms.gle/4LbupRmMPriH... Share with friends!

T-PEC Paper Submission

2026, Montreal

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🍁🍁Hello! We hiring in the junior market! 🍁🍁 Apply to work with us at McGill's Econ department! Full ad: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Our last publication in the AER: insights, now as a Research Highlight :)

AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Academic economists forming connections on social media show a bias toward certain races, genders, and elite institutions, say researchers at @mcgill.ca, Sao Paulo School of Economics, and MIT. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Our paper is finally forthcoming :)

AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Order Effects and Teacher Labor Supply: A Nation-Wide RCT in Ecuador" by Nicolás Ajzenman, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta, and Anne Sofie Olsen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🥳🥳 Our paper Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A field Experiment on #EconTwitter has just been published in the American Economic Review: Insights. with @brunoferman.bsky.social and Pedro Sant'Anna

AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The September 2025 issue of AER: Insights (7, 3) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/815.

In Chile, a program to encourage high school students to become teachers via WhatsApp counseling is trying out an AI chatbot to facilitate scaling. blogs.iadb.org/educacion/en... Early analysis shows interesting differences in how students interact with human vs AI counselors.

Paper just accepted to be published in the Journal of Politics :) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Nico Ajzenman@nicolasajz.bsky.social · last yr.

Our piece on corruption and tax compliance in developing countries. voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Scaling successful human-centered programs often encounters the “voltage effect”—they lose impact when expanded to more people. Generative AI may help bridge that gap. Here's a story:

Only 2 days left. Send your papers and come to London!

Nico Ajzenman@nicolasajz.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be in November in London. Organized by @clpennec.bsky.social Cevat Aksoy and me. The submission deadline is July 4, 2025. Apply here (and RT!): sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...

Deadline coming soon!

Nico Ajzenman@nicolasajz.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be in November in London. Organized by @clpennec.bsky.social Cevat Aksoy and me. The submission deadline is July 4, 2025. Apply here (and RT!): sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...

🚨Call for papers! We will be hosting this great workshop next autumn, organized by @clpennec.bsky.social, @nicolasajz.bsky.social and our own Cevat Aksoy. Submit your best political economy work!

Nico Ajzenman@nicolasajz.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be in November in London. Organized by @clpennec.bsky.social Cevat Aksoy and me. The submission deadline is July 4, 2025. Apply here (and RT!): sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...

Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be held in London on Nov 6-7, 2025. Organized by @nicolasajz.bsky.social, Cevat Aksoy and myself. The submission deadline is July 4. Apply here (and share widely): sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...

🚨 Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be in November in London. Organized by @clpennec.bsky.social Cevat Aksoy and me. The submission deadline is July 4, 2025. Apply here (and RT!): sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...

Our piece on corruption and tax compliance in developing countries. voxdev.org/topic/instit...

The paradox of anticorruption messaging: Evidence from a tax reform in Honduras

How should governments communicate reforms to fight corruption without reinforcing citizens’ negative perceptions? A carefully designed information intervention in Honduras provides a promising approa...

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Our "(Successful) democracies breed their own support" is out on the last edition of Restud :) academic.oup.com/restud/artic...

New piece on the effects of a progressive tax reform in 🇦🇷. Do you pay more or less taxes when you realize the reform is progressive? Does it depend on how it affects your own tax? Do you put your money where your mouth is? All you wanted to know. All you wanted to know. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Very nice piece on immigration in Latin America. And they happen to mention a nice paper on immigration and crime perceptions in Chile by some cool Southamerican researchers :) www.economist.com/the-americas...

Most Latin American migrants no longer go to the United States

Can the region cope with a new wave?

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Our "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" with Pedro Sant'Anna and @brunoferman.bsky.social is now forthcoming in the 😀😀 American Economic Review Insights (@AEAjournals ) 😀😀 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨 New WP with RP Truglia D Tortarolo G Vazquez Bare and G Cruces Do progressive reforms affect compliance? Does learning that other people's tax are increasing/decreasing affect our own compliance? Take a look below. www.nber.org/system/files...

🆕 Behavioural strategies to reduce teacher sorting in Peru Today on VoxDev, new article by @nicolasajz.bsky.social @mcgill.ca, Eleonora Bertoni @ec.europa.eu, Gregory Elacqua IDB, Luana Marotta IDB & Carolina Mendez Vargas IDB: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

Behavioural strategies to reduce teacher sorting in Peru

Low-income students are more likely to attend schools with less-qualified teachers widening achievement gaps. The Peruvian government’s novel and low-cost nationwide strategy was successful at encoura...

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🚨🚨 We are hiring!! 🚨🚨 Come work with us at McGill Econ Department in Montreal! Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... please RT #EconTwitter (below a picture of a friend of mine on campus)

Recomiendo mucho a @nicolasajz.bsky.social, siempre: www.noeseconomia.com/p/estereotip...

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Something you see quite often on here and on X the Everything App is that "people vote for right wing reactionaries with good economies, and for the left with bad ones" when basically all available evidence points to the opposite - people become far right when the economy is bad, not good

Well, so I am seeing a lot of activity here lately. Is #EconTwitter a thing here? Who should I follow?

Glad to see our paper "Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions" with P. Dominguez and R. Undurraga finally in print in AEJ: Applied Economics! link: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

First tweet? (how do we call it here?) I'm Nico Ajzenman—Assistant Professor of econ at McGill. I like development, political economy, and behavioral. And Latin America :)